Hopper car and wagon.



K. FROBES. HOPPER UAR AND WAGON,

APPLIGATION MLED JAN.14,1910.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

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INVENTUH WNESSES C. K. PROBES.

BD PPER GAR AND WAGON. APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 14, 1910.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

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iNvENToR WiTNESSEIS C. K. PROBES.

HOPPER GAR AND WAGON.

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WNWZNTR WITNESSES UNITED sTAIfjnsMrarENr OFFICE.

CHARLES K. PROBES, F SCLINECTAY, NEW YGRK.

normen CAR AND WAGON.

Speeication lof Letters Batent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

Application filed January 1411910.' Serial No, 538,165.

T o all whom 'it may concern: i

Be it known that I, CHARLES K. Phonics, a.

citizen ot' the' United States, residing at Schenectady, in the countyof Schenectady and Stat-e of New- York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in I-lopper Cars and Wagons, of which the followinp;is a specication.

This invention relates to inlprovelnents in the door opening andclosing,l .devices for hopper cars designed for carrying coal, coke, andother loose or broken materials in bulk, wherefrom the load is to bedumped through the bottom of the vehicle through openings running'longitudinally of the vehicle be tween the wheels; and my object is topro vide a simple, positive and eiifeetive device for this purpose. l

I attain my object by eonstructin, the door operatingr device in themanner illustrated in the accompanying),` drawings, in which` Figure lpresents a side elevation of one end of .a ear outline in broken lines,with my improvement applied thereto; Fig. Q, a transverse sectional Viewof the car; Fig. 5?, an end elevation thereof; and Fig. el, a detailupon a larger scale, showing` the door operatin'gjnechanism.

parts in the several views.

-Xs illustratinggl my invention, I have lshown it as applied to arailway hopper car.

The caimhody is Constructed, in any approved manner. of steel or wood,with sides A, A, of suitable height, and with thebottom of the carinclined downward to points over the inside of the rails, as shown moreyclearly at. l5, P, in Fin'. f2, these bottom in- `rflines extendinglongitudinally of the ear between the wheel` trucks, one of which trucksis shown at T. The ends of the car are closed by vertical endboards C,from which inclines It] lead downward to the plates G. G. in the forni'of an inverted V,

A'saidvw inolines forming chutes to direct the `"materials at the centerof the car downward into the chutes formed by theii...lined bottoms B,B. To these in clines G doors D, D,

Like letters oi. reference designate like' points where the bottominclines B, B, be!

are Vfastened-by hinges at H, (see Fig'. 2)-, to close the-openingsbetween the inclincs G and the bot-tomsB. The ends of the chutes.

thufs formed byrtlie plates Gr and they bottoms Bare closedbyverticalplates F, F.

4ltlidway between their ends the doors D, D, are provided with screwtlireaded` trunnion blocks J', into which the ends of the right and leftscrew K are entered. On their inward sides the doors are provided withboxes at I, I, or other suitable protectiv'e housings into which theends of this sciew will pass when the doors are opened. *it its centerthe screw K is provided with a pulley or sprocket wheel L, over which achain M passes to a corresponding pulley or sprocket wheel N on theopera ting shaft O, mountedto,rotate in brackets Q al tat-,hed lo theends F of the.- chutes. This sha-tt. projects outwardly at each end,and. is squared to receive operating cranks l). as shown in Fig'. 3. Theleft hand bracket Q is shownin Figs. 3 and 4.- as provided with a setscrew operable by hand, whereby this crank shaft may be fastened againstrotation.

Zhen in operation, the contents of the car will be" dumped by turningthe crank shaft O by means of the cranks P, applied thereto on one orboth sides of the car, the doors I) beingv opened more or less accordingto the freedom of discharge desired, by inlpaitin'n' the necessaryrotation to the right and left screw K, through the chain connection M,By means of this construction 'The doors will lie-held positively openat any desired point, regardless of the weight of the contents of thecar, and of the 'torre ot' discharge thereof from the car.

.If need be'more than the one rightand let'l screw may he a] plied tothese doorsl and controlled by the one operating'slurft,` as will beobvious to those skilled in the art; and, furthermore, I do not limit.myself to the exact detailsof construction illustrated and described.nor to any particular construction of railway ear or road wagon.

lVhat I'claim as my inventionand desire to secure by Letters Patent is--LA. hopper vehicle having' longitudinal chutes opening toward oneanother and doors adapted lto close the chutes, in combination with atransversely positioned right `and left hand screw, the end-sof whichpass through openings therefor' in the doors,

trunnioned nuts pn the doors intohwhich the ends of theserew areenteredJ und means l doors .to receive and protect the ends of the forrotating' the screw to open and close the screw, and means for rotatingthe screw to doors at said openings. 4open and close the doors.

2. A hopper vehicle having longitudinal In testimony whereof I haveaflixed my 5 chutes opening toward one another and signature in presenceof two Witnesses.

doors adapted to close the chutes in eo1nbination wi th a transverselypositioned right (JHARLES K PROBES and left hand screw, trunnioned nutson the Witnesses:

doors into Whichthe ends of the screw are JOHN J OBRIEN,`

im entered, housings on the inward sides of the JoHN J. STANLEY.

